term, and since obama has been in office. you might want to put it to me if there are particular things you have got in mind. and you are talking about the current situation. the administration, to our idea, gave us adequate support at different times over the past two or three years, or just to put it into context, uncomfortable for us, not the withthey were advocating the state department and others in the united states, but this was not, fortunately, a moment where lives were at stake and which would be seen by the rest of the world as an absolutely for american foreign policy or even, perhaps, for hours, given all of the other things going on, so i agree with you that the sort of language severaly used on occasions was unhelpful and did not go as far as we would have liked. taken a lot tove adjust that somewhat, but i am not sure if it goes with what we a reallyssing today as major foreign-policy issue between us. >> thank you. major of the interventions that the two billio countries were working side-by-side on was iraq,